Managing Rights Management

Microsoft and Vertigo Studios Blockchain Patents

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. (Note patent number 11,000,000 was issued today). Assigned to Microsoft, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for consensus-based policy management. Assigned to Vertigo Studios, the second patent concerns techniques for a blockchain-enabled... Read more →

Averon and Nielsen Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Averon, the first patent addresses techniques for verifying a user based on digital fingerprint signals derived from out-of-band data. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for flagging... Read more →

Disney Watermarking and Boeing Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Disney, the first patent addresses techniques for descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content. Assigned to Boeing, the second patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint... Read more →

Silveredge Technologies and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Silveredge Technologies (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for hardware agnostic detection of television advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting media content... Read more →

Gracenote and Enswers Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second patent addresses techniques... Read more →

Intel and Elixsys Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications

We continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first Spotlight Application discloses techniques for blockchain-based shadow images to facilitate copyright protection of digital content. Assigned to Elixsys, the second application discloses techniques for using smart contracts to control... Read more →

Nagravision Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USTPO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in uncompressed video data. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for inserting advertisements and/or... Read more →

Sharp Watermarking and Facebook Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Sharp (JP), the first application discloses techniques for decoding a content bitstream including receiving a respective watermark associated with different portions of said content bitstream. Assigned... Read more →

Enswers Fingerprinting and Thomson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for advertisement detection based on fingerprints. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for increasing the... Read more →

iSpot.TV and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published in Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to iSpot.TV, the first application discloses techniques for modifying advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching. 20160366492, "Advertisement modification method... Read more →

Facebook and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for commercial detection based on audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for facilitating flip-resistant media fingerprinting. 9,503,781,... Read more →

Facebook Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting commercials based on audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses media processing methods and arrangements using digital watermarking.... Read more →

XCINEX Watermarking and Verizon Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Last Thursday's Spotlight Applications concern digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to XCINEX, the first application discloses techniques for viewing movies. Assigned to Verizon, the second application discloses audio fingerprinting for advertisement detection. 20150281774, "Techniques for Viewing Movies," assigned... Read more →

RPX and Thomson Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Sportlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to RPX, the first patent addresses techniques using watermarking for advertisement detection. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the second patent addresses techniques for detecting which one of symbols of watermark data... Read more →

Cognitive Media and IBM Digital Fingerprinting Patents

Tuesdays the PTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Cognitive Networks, the first patent addresses techniques for real-time television ad detection using an automated content recognition database. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for generating and utilizing a data... Read more →

Gracenote and Thomson Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for generating and detecting fingerprints for synchronizing audio and video. Assigned to Thomson Licensing (FR), the second application discloses techniques for frame accurate advertisement... Read more →

Digimarc and Fujitsu Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

The PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking . Assigned to Digimarc, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for economically secure digital mass media systems. Assigned to Fujitsu (JP), the second application discloses techniques for interactive advertising using... Read more →

IP Squared and Adobe DRM Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of the Spotlight Applications presented address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IP Squared Technologies, the first application discloses techniques for managing data assets associated with peer-to-peer networks. Assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses a digital rights management retrieval... Read more →

Dish and Cognitive Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

The PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dish Digital, the first application discloses techniques for pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints. Apparently assigned to Cognitive Media Networks, Inc., the second application discloses techniques... Read more →

Intertrust Watermarking and Verance Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Intertrust, the first application discloses techniques for data protection. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for content distribution including advertisements. 20140082741, "Data protection systems and methods," assigned... Read more →

Hitachi Watermarking and Microsoft Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the PTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Hitachi (JP), the first application discloses a digital watermark advertising content service system. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for video identification and search.... Read more →

Enswers and Set Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assinged to Enswers (KR), the first application discloses techniques for generating video markup data on the basis of video fingerprint information. Assigned to Set Media, the second application discloses techniques for matching... Read more →

SAP and Managed Audience Share Solutions DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights managment. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first application discloses techniques for generating constraints for use in access control. Assigned to Managed Audience Share Solutions LLC, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Fox and Fujitsu DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Fox Entertainment, the first application discloses techniques for media asset/content security control and management, especially with respect to advertising. Assigned to Fujitsu (JP), the second application discloses techniques... Read more →

Apple and Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Apple, the first patent concerns a token passing technique for media playback devices. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns techniques for offline playback of advertising supported media. 7,975,312, "Token... Read more →

Two Intertrust DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Intertrust. The first application discloses techniques for dynamic, local targeted advertising. the second application discloses techniques for content sharing. 20100293050, "Dynamic, Local Targeted Advertising Systems... Read more →

Microsoft and IBM DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent concerns techniques for enforcing advertisement playback for downloaded media content. Assigned to IBM, the second patent concerns techniques for managing access to physical data via a data abstraction... Read more →

LG And Microsoft DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of DRM. Assigned to LG Electronics, the first patent concerns techniques for processing digital rights management contents containing advertising contents. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patent concerns techniques for software application protection by way of a... Read more →

Digital Rights Management Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address various aspects of DRM. The first application discloses techniques for generating teaser advertisements and providing content, no assignee given. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the second application discloses techniques for DRM and for DRM-enabled devices. 20080262922, "Contents,... Read more →

Phillips Acquires The Rest of Teletrax

Phillips has announced that is has acquired the portion of Telextrax, the video content tracking service, that it did not own from former joint venture partner Medialink. Teletrax was launched in 2002 as a joint venture between Philips and Medialink Worldwide Incorporated (Nasdaq: MDLK). Based on Philips’ digital watermarking, and... Read more →